Dan Wang

And what I really enjoy is I start my book in my very first paragraph to say that Chinese and Americans are more alike than any other people.

And I think this is something among people who have spent any time in China, they're always congratulating me and saying, yeah, that's exactly right.

Chinese and Americans are so alike.

So how are they alike?

Well, they're the two great founts of entrepreneurial dynamism in the world.

It is Shenzhen and Silicon Valley that are inventing the future and not so much Europe and Japan any longer.

So there's a hustle energy, there's a hastiness, there's a sense of taking shortcuts.

And a lot of that manifests in some things that don't work very well, but just need a lot of hustle and dynamism that you see among these people.

Both countries have a sense of technological sublime.

So there's these grand projects like the Golden Gate Bridge or Manhattan or Apollo that the Americans have and the Chinese also share.

And both countries are filled with elites and masses that really believe themselves to be

really important great powers in the world.

And if other countries don't get in line, whether that is the Philippines or South Korea on that side of the Pacific, or the Canadians or the Danish with Greenland, then they also need to be muscled around a little bit.

And so I see far more similarities than differences between these two peoples.

Well, Patrick, is this book not unhinged enough for you?

I thought there's plenty of people who believe that I've gone off the deep end here.

But if we had to turn it into 11, then I think...

I would talk a little bit more about all of the ways that China believes in the future.

So I think that's another similarity between the US and China.

I think they're often very future-oriented.